As many people already know, Russell Crowe (perhaps one of the best actors on the planet… yet also one of the biggest jerks) was recently replaced on the much publicized, yet still untitled Baz Laurmann flick in which he was going to star along side of Nicole Kidman. What I didn’t know is WHY Crowe left the production. But thanks to the good folks at the New York Post... we know now!
The hot-tempered Oscar winner demanded script approval for the love story with Nicole Kidman set in the Australian outback prior to the Japanese bombardment of Darwin in 1942. The producers told Luhrmann to find another actor, and the director met several times with fellow Aussie Ledger. “Baz liked him and offered him the movie,” said one source. “Then Crowe came back to Luhrmann and said he’d forego script approval and wanted to do the movie, but they told him it was too late – to buzz off.”
Ok, let me first re-state this. Russell Crowe is one of the best actors alive (I’ll go so far as to say the man’s pure range, raw emotion and power make him the BEST actor alive).
Now, having said that… I’m glad he got his ass kicked off the movie!!!! I HATE IT when actors try to pull shit like that! Why the hell should he have script approval?!?! He’s a frigging ACTOR! Three cheers for the studio not taking his crap and booting his ass!
As a side note, this is basically the same thing Chris Tucker wanted for Rush Hour 3. The studio SHOULD have booted his ass and replaced him with Heath Ledger too! LOL Thanks to CrzyDJM for the heads up.
When did that happen? That’s news to me.
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I think what you mean to say is that there really isn’t any way you could possibly be for someone like that.
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And FYI, RC always gets script approval for the simple reason that he’s an actor who does good movies. Any decent actor can get that, plus cast approval. And if he doesn’t like something he gets changes made. The end result is RC makes good movies that get Oscar noms. How else is one going to know a movie is worth doing if they can’t be sure of a good script?
He can’t get fired from a job he never had. He simply walked out of negotiations and Fox threw a tizzy and went to their own, News Corp. owned tabloid outlets to place all the blame on him. Only a fool would believe that garbage. They even lied about Heath getting the job. Now they are without a lead actor and it would be in their best interest to work it out with RC… if they actually care about making a good film, that is, because it seems that they are doing their best to kill this film by hacking the budget and hacking the script. No actor of Russell’s caliber is going to want to be a part of that and Baz shouldn’t put up with it either.
Hmmm…. predictable.
Real men haven’t been allowed in Hollywood for a good long while now. No suprise a guy like Crowe threatened all the limp-dicked metrosexuals enough to get booted off a film.
We need to burn down Los Angeles and start all over again.
I completely agree. Just because he’s good doens’t mean he’s god. Good to see that someone decided to step up and put him in line. Maybe this will teach him a lesson. This is exacttly what the studio should have done to Tucker.
HA! Finally that stupid twat got what’s owed to him. Perhaps this will make him think twice next time his ego gets out of hand.
(Probably not, though… :-))
Those darn Aussies….They’re just so silly, aren’t they Alan? He’s just hoping that Campea will laugh and laugh and laugh. What a silly bastard.
john
i just got a call from rc. he says, “tell blogboy to laugh it up”. wow. whatever that means…
z
Hey Allan,
HAHAHA… that was the best comment I’ve got today!!!
lol
i have in on good authority that rc is on his way to kick your ass. not because of your post, but because you won’t give him total editorial approval of your blog. he’s on his way…
z